Isaac Toucey

Isaac Toucey (15 November 1792-30 July 1869) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CN) from 4 March 1835 to 3 March 1837 (succeeding Noyes Barber) and from CN 1 from 4 March 1837 to 3 March 1839 (preceding Joseph Trumbull), Governor of Connecticut from 6 May 1846 to 5 May 1847 (succeeding Roger Sherman Baldwin and preceding Clark Bissell), US Attorney General from 21 June 1848 to 3 March 1849 (succeeding Nathan Clifford and preceding Reverdy Johnson), a US Senator from 12 May 1852 to 4 March 1857 (succeeding Baldwin and preceding James Dixon), and US Secretary of the Navy from 7 March 1857 to 4 March 1861 (succeeding James C. Dobbin and preceding Gideon Welles).

Biography
Isaac Toucey was born in Newtown, Connecticut in 1792, and he became a lawyer in Hartford in 1818. He served in the state legislature before going on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1835 to 1839, as Governor from 1846 to 1847, as Attorney General from 1848 to 1849, as a US Senator from 1852 to 1857, and as Secretary of the Navy from 1857 to 1861. Toucey was a moderate northerner who was much in line with James Buchanan's pro-appeasement policies with the American South, and he was a Democrat. He died in Hartford in 1869.